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What are you working on?

I feel like there's probably a lot of work that goes on in the community that people don't necessarily make a big deal out of - stuff that might never get finished or released, but, in many cases, is pretty cool. I thought that at thread like this might encourage people to share their little pet projects, half formed ideas, WiPs - anything FS related that maybe doesn't deserve its own WiP threads. That might mean models, missions, reskins, animations, effects - anything!

Not necessarily interested in secret project work (though if you want to share, go right ahead), just whatever you feel like sharing. And if you have a screenshot, render or other pic, more's the better!

So... what are you working on?

For my part, in addition to project work for TI and BWO (that is progressing guys despite the delay, I swear!) I'm trying to improve my Vasudan texturing - I started by UVing and reskinning Aldo's Hathor class model (this thing - no pics at present, unfortunately, it's stuck on the other machine) and continued by looking at Trashman's Wepwawet, which I decided would work well as a "Colonial One" type heavy diplomatic transport:

I'm also texturing Axem's old Bellonna class corvette, with the intent of using it as a small stealth ship - its awesome concealed turrets make it a very cool candidate for that.

Re: What are you working on?

Suh-weet. Unfinished model getting finished. I can approve of this enterprise.

Also I love that skybox, BTA.

As for me, I've been working on JAD2.22, continuing any effort to fuse the space sim genre with the genre of something else... To that end...(This Visual Novel script I made is the best and worst thing I've ever made.)

I'm gonna be sticking to shortish campaigns of maybe 4-8 missions for the most part, starting with a training campaign to introduce people to the setting, and a Regulus campaign once I can make and UV a few minor assets. (I'm starting with these two 'vignettes' because I can stick pretty much entirely to existing models.)

Re: What are you working on?

GTD Boreas Reborn - Some sort of HTL old and ugly HTL Boreas known from Shadow Genesis. Baked textures will be included in refresh and the same thing goes for Icelus [as both are textured horribly IMHO]. You may see both of them in Shadow Genesis 2.0.

2nd

GTBs Invictus - Based on Daegon, but redesigned more racically. It's supposed to be FS1 era flagship of the GTA, but I dropped the project due to lack of project that could include it.

3rd

Alternate Ancient Fleet - As the title says, it's alternate for ASW fleet and it's based on old Vasudan Empire warships from Over the Top. Fleet contains cruiser based on Joh, frigate based on Geb [AFg Moires] and two destroyers - AD Chania [based on some very old vasudan carrier above] and other destroyer based on Duat. I might probably rework some other models, but I dropped the project. They are old, tilemapped and ugly. I have Moires tilemapped and resmoothed, but it never left Blender phase. Only one part of this project is finished - the Chania, all purpose heavy carrier-destroyer similar in role to Hecate. It will be included in Mystery Project modpack.

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Hello everyone. I've not been very active recently, but it doesn't mean I'm not doing anything . Uni- related stuff is pinning me down now but in a free time.... Brace your eyes. That crap may hurt your sight.

Yeah. When you raise your modelling skill to the satisfying level it would be nice to learn some drawing. What is what I'm doing now And let me present you a piece of a heavy frigate made by lukasz. The design was based on the early concepts of Impervious from DE. For now it found it's place in betrayal's Mystery Project So, please be patient, there is a lot to be shown here

Um and one more thing. This little guy can make you texturing much much easier TBH I can't imagine working without it now

Oh, and I almost forgot. I'm waiting for that lad above me to remap my Strike Hydra . Current UV is a bit tricky, few places need some fixes. As soon as I grab them I will move with texturing the Hydra.

Re: What are you working on?

Actually i´m working on a set of colored ANI Heads for anyone that want to use in his mod ( if he likes )I´m not a professional animator but i´m learning and having fun a lot...As well i´m trying to use MixaelANITools but i have many problems, so finally i´m doing different.Anyway, here some previews of the imperial pack....

Re: What are you working on?

WCS Open:A modding/coding project to get Wing Commander Saga to run properly on regular FSO builds, based on MatthTheGeek's pre-WCS source release efforts. I intended to get a somewhat more polished product before even attempting to coordinate with the SCP team to port back the features/SEXP needed to get the game working. The end-product should also include the option to skip a given dialogue, which I had almost finished working on before the source code release.

Engine-wise so far, compared to FSO, I think it's got a few extra in-mission ship/wing flags (without FRED integration, because FRED's GUI code seems to be some sort of eldritch entity from beyond time and space) and a couple of SEXP that have, as far as I know, no equivalent in FSO. Feature-wise, I've mostly managed to reproduce the various HUDs, which was a really tedious task since WCS uses a lot of generic hud elements shared by all ships which were defined once in the WCS hud table, but had to be redefined (read: copy-pasted) for each ship with a custom hud in FSO. Why not just port that handy feature back into FSO? Because WCS & FSO's hud code have absolutely nothing in common, and I lacked the know-how and familiarity with the hud code to port all that from scratch.

I've also encountered a couple of odd bugs, such as the game crashing during the first command briefing, head anis playing their "I am dying" animation for regular messages, and fighters colliding with the end the carrier's hangar.

set-armor-value: A rather minor project, the idea was to not have a zillion armor types à-la-BP for every concievable damage-reduction/increase scenario. I think the SEXP itself is working, but that there was some issue with FRED integration.

A Vasudan Point of View:The big modTM, it's got a ton of unfinished stuff, stuff to be redone, stuff to be made, etc.Aside from missions to FRED, re-FRED, balance, etc.Models (no screenies for now):

Vasudan Torpedo (to redo): Not really essential, but I thought I had a decent concept a few years ago that didn't turn out all that well, so I'd like to give it another shot.

Shivan SSM (to redo): Kinda important to me. I had a concept for that one as well, but I think it sucked, so I'd have to restart from scratch.

Shivan Gunship (WiP): One of my oldest models not to have been scrapped. I thought about posting about it in modding several times for advice, but always chickened in the end. Haven't given up on it though.

Scripts:

Ship Variant: Mostly finished now, it's already been posted on HLP, but I haven't really had time to make use of it, so ...

Gunship/Bomber turret setting: Kinda similar in spirit to the variant script, the idea is to modify a strike craft's loadout according to what primary weapon it is carrying. The logic behind this was to create several complexe weapons/turret/armor packages for gunships (see models above), bombers, or any player-flyable ships. Since the gunship model was never finished, I never got around to finishing the script.

Respawn/body jump script: Still not quite out of the drawing board. It's basically a ship switching script with incorporated cutscene: when player hull <= 1%, slow game down, select a new ship to jump to, turn camera towards target ship, move camera to target ship, jump to target ship.

Re: What are you working on?

set-armor-value: A rather minor project, the idea was to not have a zillion armor types à-la-BP for every concievable damage-reduction/increase scenario. I think the SEXP itself is working, but that there was some issue with FRED integration.

How did you pull that off? It looks like you'd need to basically rewrite the armor type system, or at the very least change the way the damage code calls it. I had some vague ideas involving rewriting a lot of damage code, so I'd be keenly interested in your code, if you're willing to share.

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. <MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".(the very next day)<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."<MageKing17> **** ME<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"(...)<MageKing17> so<MageKing17> more than two hours<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.

Re: What are you working on?

set-armor-value: A rather minor project, the idea was to not have a zillion armor types à-la-BP for every concievable damage-reduction/increase scenario. I think the SEXP itself is working, but that there was some issue with FRED integration.

How did you pull that off? It looks like you'd need to basically rewrite the armor type system, or at the very least change the way the damage code calls it. I had some vague ideas involving rewriting a lot of damage code, so I'd be keenly interested in your code, if you're willing to share.

I'm afraid it's not really anything fancy like that actually , I just wanted to be able to reduce or increase damage taken by a particular ship or subsystem regardless of damage type.The idea was to keep things as simple as possible, so I added an armor_value (and shield_armor_value) attribute to ship and ship_subsys, then factored that in after all other damage calculations when applying damage.

Re: What are you working on?

I'm afraid it's not really anything fancy like that actually , I just wanted to be able to reduce or increase damage taken by a particular ship or subsystem regardless of damage type.The idea was to keep things as simple as possible, so I added an armor_value (and shield_armor_value) attribute to ship and ship_subsys, then factored that in after all other damage calculations when applying damage.

...Ah. Significantly less interesting (from my perspective, wanting to rewrite damage handling), but much more practical and a lot easier to implement.

<MageKing17> "There's probably a reason the code is the way it is" is a very dangerous line of thought. <MageKing17> Because the "reason" often turns out to be "nobody noticed it was wrong".(the very next day)<MageKing17> this ****ing code did it to me again<MageKing17> "That doesn't really make sense to me, but I'll assume it was being done for a reason."<MageKing17> **** ME<MageKing17> THE REASON IS PEOPLE ARE STUPID<MageKing17> ESPECIALLY ME

<MageKing17> God damn, I do not understand how this is breaking.<MageKing17> Everything points to "this should work fine", and yet it's clearly not working.<MjnMixael> 2 hours later... "God damn, how did this ever work at all?!"(...)<MageKing17> so<MageKing17> more than two hours<MageKing17> but once again we have reached the inevitable conclusion<MageKing17> How did this code ever work in the first place!?

<@The_E> Welcome to OpenGL, where standards compliance is optional, and error reporting inconsistent

<MageKing17> It was all working perfectly until I actually tried it on an actual mission.

<IronWorks> I am useful for FSO stuff again. This is a red-letter day!* z64555 erases "Thursday" and rewrites it in red ink

<MageKing17> TIL the entire homing code is held up by shoestrings and duct tape, basically.